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Publisher
Year Published
2010
# of Players
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
13 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(4 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain
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Primary Name
Show Business
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Show business is the economical-tactic game for 2 to 5 players aged 13+ with play time 45 min – 2 hours. You act as manager of music group playing one of 5 major music styles: rock, pop, black (e.g. rap, soul, R&B), jazz, club (electronic dance music) and compete with other managers to gain fame and money for you and your musicians.

Employ best musicians and motivate them to write popular songs. Forecast market trends and influence media to have songs of your group on top of charts. Use your contacts in branch and hire professionalists available on the market to support your group as well as to sabbotage successes of your competition. Contract most lucrative concerts and travel with your tournees around Europe. Take care of highest possible satisfaction within a group in order to have your musicians as long as possible with you. It is one year time for you to lift up your debutants on top of popularity. Gain fame and money greater than your competitors.

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CONTENT OF THE BOX:

  • 1 game board
  • 5 music band boards
  • 50 musician cards
  • 80 influence cards
  • 80 concert tokens
  • 4 trend dice
  • 80 money coins
  • 20 players markers
  • song plates
  • 3 game rules booklets (english, german, polish)

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Publisher: SINONIS
Artist: Maciej Hajnrich, Yuri Schipakin
Year: 2010
Size: Long Rectangle (e.g. Power Grid)
English, German, Polish
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0 Show Business Player Aid V2.0 [ITA]
La traduzione dell'aiuto al giocatore v 2.0 dimvettemagred
2011-03-13
7 Show Business Player Aid V3.0 (NEW)
A player aid for Show Business, Version 3.0, uploaded with permission from Grzegorz Majewski. Added lines and lables on the turn summary to separate the player turn steps from End of Round and Quarter End steps. Also added a name and color chart for the music styles, to assist with Satisfaction Check during Quarter End.
2011-02-27
1 Labels for trend dice
If printed symbols on your trend dice disappeared after couple of plays here you can find labels to print and stick on them.
2011-02-20
2 Spare songs for Show Business
Sheet with spare songs if you run out of original from the box.
2010-11-07
5 Show Business [FR] - Regles du jeu
Règles du jeu complet, traduit par Cèdric Blaise.
2010-10-15
0 Show Business [DE] - Spielanleitung
Gesamt "Show Business" regeln in Deutsch
2010-10-08
19 Show Business [EN] - English rulebook
New version of English rulebook by Russ Williams.
2010-10-04
2 Show Business [PL] - Instrukcja polska
Instrukcja polska gry "Show Business".
2010-10-04
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 3346
Num Ratings: 50
Average Rating: 7.14
Standard Deviation: 1.66
Num Views: 17371
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Avg. Game Weight: 4.0
Fans: 10
Personal Comments: 28
Users Owning: 82
Users Wanting: 16
Users Trading: 5 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 0
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Plays This Month: 3
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